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Maguey along Carrizo Creek 123 | Millerton 24 
aguey at the Cajon 88 | Minerals 
Malarious fever 1 | Mining by sai er method 265, 266 
Mameluke Hill 271 Michigan C i 264 
Mameluke Tunnel Co 272 nn organisms at MOLES lu, 180, 181 
Mammoth and mastodon, remains of, in the gold al- Miocene of Ocoya Creek 34,164 
luvia 256,257 | Mirage on the Colorado Desert .............. 103, 108, 251 
Mammoth, tooth of. 186 | Mirage in the Great Basin 221 
Mammoth trees ---257,258 | Mission of San Fernando 74 
Manzinita 88,270 Mission of San Diego 128 
Manganese, arborescent growth of, on slabs of rock-... 263 | Mission of San Francisco 4 
Marine shells, fossil 33,129 | Mission of San Gabriel , 78 
Marine ranges parallel with the coast Mitchell's Bridge 11 
Marine Islan ! 149,150 | Mojave Rive 
Marshes of the San Joaquin 10 por a tributary of the Colorado...... 212, 213 
Martinez 5 Mojave River, spring at 224 
sses of antimony ore 4 
Mastodon, portion of a tooth of, from Ocoya Creek... 172 
Melocactus 9 
Melons at the Tejon 39 
Melons raised by Indians 111 
Teretrix 
Meretrix Tularana 42,188 
Merced River I 
Mercenaria perlaminosa .......... E 179 
Mescal ===> 105 
Mesas or table hills 18 
Metamorphic rocks near the Mariposa 16 
near Howard's Ferry 13 
at Fort Miller 20 
at the Four Creeks 27 
of the Cañada de las Uvas ------- 46 
+ of the Tejon: PRESS woe as lt 51 
0 Great Basin 53 
of the Pass of San Francisquito .. 60 
near the Cow Camp 61 
of the Valley of the Mojave 64 
ef San ig; Mountain....91,93,94 
of Pilot Kn 112 
at Vallecito 
of the 'Tejon 199,207 
limestone, of the Tejon ....---.. 204 
e las Uvas..-.... 210 
of the Lost Mountains and Great 
Basin 
of the Do Desert 234 
of the Gold Regi 275,276 
— belts et trending N.W. 
and S 
- 
= 
2 
وی‎ of the Gold Region --- 276 
Metamorphic sandstone u. 3096 
Metamorphosed sandstone 
Mezquite bushes 
on the desert, partly dead 
.-. 205 
95, 107, 111, 242 
109 
Deep Well 96 
Mezquite bread, made by Indians ------------------- 98 
Mezquite beans ---- 105 
Mezquite wells E 
Mirarann Tis 61 
Mica slate 199 
alternate appearance and موی‎ bi 
the water of 
Mojave River Camp 
ce cas Hill 260, 261 
Monkey H 1 
79 
Monterey 8,4, 130 
BE, sp: of. X 180 
28 
didus diit of California 133 
Mountains of California, grouping of 134 
Mountains of the Great Basin and Desert 141 | 
Mountains north of the Desert 142 
Mountains west of the Tulare Lakes 33 
Mountain Sheep 43,46 
Mount Diablo 6 
elevation of. > 140 
m: in Mong yellow festoons 43 
rnardino 81 
Mormon Island 
j granite at 275,282 
Mud on the Isthmus 2 
Murchison, Sir R. J., conclusions of, respecting the © ۲ 
u 
recent formation of go 78, 279 
Mytilus Pe Pedro an sli aR a pe a Oh 186 
N. 
Nanaimo, coal of 287 
کت‎ ap, A 186 
Nassa Pedroana . 186 
nes Ocoyana 08 
Natica Diegoana ues E uc Pe 
| Natica XX à و‎ 170 
Natica —— ir ~----------- . 173 
Navy Point, Benicia : : — | 
aus of the strata oo "c.r IM 
| Nevad 213 
New River in the Desert 233 
Nickel, Emerald 5 303 
x Sod : 177 
Nucula divaricata 173, 177 
